If you happen to be in Denver ...

... make sure to drop by the new building of the MCA Denver. It's the perfect museum to me. Great architecture, interesting art, just large enough to spend an hour or two and then grab a bite in the lower downtown area. When we were there last week we enjoyed this installation by Candice Breitz called Legend. A kind of tribute to Bob Marley ... it really grabs you. Take your time to study all the faces, styles, expressions ... Most of the people in there have dark skin but they're all totally different. Fascinating really. And if the quality of this YouTube video is not good enough give me a yell, I have an HD version :). But better still, go see and experience if yourself.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQYbME67Z5o&rel=1]
And for the geeks ... movie shot with my brand new Sony HDR-CX6 HD video camera (which can not be found on the Sony website - duh!)and edited (just a bit) with iMovie. Editing HD movies however means LOADS of disk space, fortunately Steve comes to the rescue with the Time Capsule. Just what I was looking for to backup the 3 macs at home.

A bumpy ride to snowy Denver

Just arrived in Denver but not after our deal of airplane trouble. This is my annual US trip, a good occasion to really 'feel' America which is kinda different then reading blogs and listening to podcasts. Quite a temperature shock from 14°C in Brussels to -10°C here in Denver. And if somebody tags me with the '5 things you didn't know about me' thing, I'll tell what I'm doing here :)

About the plane trip, check this out:
1. Flight Brussels - London delayed due to heavy winds. At 10:30h I learn that we're stuck till at least 14:00h, so I decide to invest in 24 hours wireless access through Proximus in the airport for €20. And just as I complete the procedure ... we can board the plane. We'll at least this way we didn't miss the connection to Denver.
2. Bumpy ride to London, and we get stuck for 20 minutes at the gate waiting for the guys to bring up the stairs to the plane. Trouble with heavy winds again.
3. We want to check through to Denver, but we're told that due to the heavy rain luggage is not checked through. So we have to go through customs, pick up our bags and check in again.
4. Waiting for bags ... waiting ... belt stuck ... waiting ... belt stuck ... no bags. Seems that our bags had been checked through anyway. So we check in ourselves again.
5. And top it all up ... the flight to Denver was delayed with half an hour.

What I missed most is my yearly shopping session at Heathrow airport, no nifty gadgets this year and no time to check out the "World of Whiskeys".

One last thing about the trip. The Americans remain as 'plastic-friendly' as ever (good evening sir, how are you tonight, blablabla) but I was pleasantly surprised by the BA crew. Announcements were not the traditional 'I'm reading this off a paper because I have to', but it all sounded very genuine on both flights. Seems the BA staff got training in 'being real'. I like that.